M42 Great Orion Nebula
by Gary Stevens

Gary Stevens imaged this great shot at Joshua Tree National Park in November 2000 on a Takahashi FSQ-106N f/5 4-element fluorite refractor and Zeiss II German Equatorial Mount using a Santa Barbara Instrument Group ST-8E NABG CCD camera (1530 x 1020 pixels, 9 x 9mm, monochromatic, 16 bit, 13.8 x 9.2mm array) and CWF8 color filter wheel with IR-blocking red, green and blue dichroic filters.

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Credit: Gary Stevens